The Illustrated Book of Guns: An Illustrated Directory of Over 1,000 Military, Sporting, and Antique Firearms
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (790 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1571452877 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
With the use of hundreds of specially taken photographs, accompanied by a brief technical description of each weapon, this huge volume is the most comprehensive directory of its kind ever published.. Five centuries of small arms development are encompassed in this superbly illustrated directory which features more than 1,000 of the most important pistols, rifles, revolvers, submachine, light, and heavy machine guns made and used throughout the world
Five Stars Great book! gave to my husband for his birthday and he really enjoyed looking through it.. "Chock Full of Great Picturesand Typos" according to J.W. Green. Well I'm pretty neutral on this book. It features many good pictures of good guns, inlcluding some that I've never seen (the Terry Pattern Carbine, Kuntz Air Rifle, and Whitney-Burgess Carbine stick out). However, it has more typos and misplaced photos than you can imagine! Two examples are the editor not knowing how to spell the "Keene" part of the Remington-Keene Rifle and placing the bizarre-looking Webley-Fosbery Semiautomatic Revolver's photo on the description of the conventional Webley & Scott Mark V's description (the weapon is clearly stamped "Webley-Fosbery", too). There ar. Ample illustrations, but lack of/incorrect information A Customer This was a very disappointing book! There were glaring mistakes present in the text/descriptions, some to the point of hilarity. A couple of examples include: A description of a rifle and the accompanying picture is not even close to the one being described. Another is where the author/editor says that the original .45 Colt loading was with 617 grains of black-powder! :D (This would almost fill up a couple of shot glasses!)These are just a few of the many mistakes that I noticed in the few minutes that I looked at the book.I would not recommend this book to anyone, except for the ill